Eliphalet Dyer

Eliphalet Dyer (14 September 1721-13 May 1807) was a delegate for Connecticut to several sessions of the Continental Congress.

Biography
Eliphalet Dyer was born in Windham, Connecticut in 1721, and he graduated from Yale in 1740. Admitted to the bar in 1746, Dyer was elected justice of the peace and a member of the colonial assembly in 1747. During the French and Indian War, he served as a lieutenant colonel in the militia, and he took part in the 1755 capture of Crown Point from France and took part in the 1758 campaign in Canada. From 1766 to 1793, he served as a justice of the superior court of Connecticut, serving as Chief Justice from 1789 to 1793. From 1774 to 1775, 1777 to 1779, and from 1782 to 1783, he represented Connecticut at the Continental Congress, and he retired from public life in 1793 and died in 1807.